Curtain-rod support.



No. 769,859. PATENTED SEPT. 13, 1904. J. E. PANNING.

CURTAIN ROD SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28, 1903.

NO MODEL.

John E.Fanning. Wm.

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CURTAIN-ROD SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,859, dated September 13, 1904.

Application filed November 28, 1903. I Serial No. 182,994. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN E. FANNING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norwich, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Rod Supports, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The immediate object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and effective device for securing supplemental curtain-rods to the brackets ordinarily provided with portieres and the like draperies.

My said invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 being an end View of a portire-pole and its supportingbracket, showing also a rod-support of my improved form properly mounted upon and clamped to the said bracket. Fig. 2 is a crosssectional view of the same taken on the line 2 2. Fig. 3 is a plan of the blank from which my new clamping device is formed, and Fig. 4: illustrates end and side views of the said blank after it has been doubled upon itself as I shall explain more fully later on. Fig. 5 is an enlarged end view of my said clamping device as it appears when in use.

In the drawings, the letter (0 indicates a portire-pole, and ba bracket adapted to support said pole. As here illustrated, the said bracket is made from sheet metal suitably formed and secured to a window or door casing by screws 0.

The letter (Z denotes a supplemental rod adapted to support sliding curtains or light draperies, the said rod being secured to one member of the bracket I) by my new device, which device is formed from a single piece of sheet metal that is blanked out substantially as shown in Fig. 3that is to say, the said blank is formed with a body portion 6 and a position, and the tongue 0 is bent around said rod, the end of the tongue being tucked in between the bracket Z) and the lower portion of the body 6, as seen in Figs. 1 and 5. The screw 9 is then entered in the holes in said body and screwed home until it clamps firmly together the body 6, tongue 6, and bracket 5. The end of the screw also, preferably, abuts the rod (Z, and thus holds said rod against accidental endwise displacement.

It will thus be seen that I provide in a single inexpensive piece of sheet metal a support by means of which a rod may be quickly and firmly clamped in position on its support-to wit, a bracket Z) or some similar object.

Having thus described my invention, I claim In a curtain-rod support, in combination, a body portion folded upon itself and formed with perforations in its end portions, as set forth, a laterally-extending tongue having its free end entered between the said perforated ends, and means for clamping together the said perforated ends and interposed tongue.

Signed at Norwich, Connecticut, this 24th day of November, 1903.

JOHN E. FANNING.

Witnesses:

FRANK II. ALLEN, FRANK S. DEWIRE. 

